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Ramakrishna Daily Sutras ~ October 2019

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These sutras are excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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100 Quotes Sorted by Topic

27 Quotes on BHAKTI - DEVOTION - LOVE
20 Quotes on the REALIZATION OF BRAHMAN - GOD
19 Quotes on KALI, THE DIVINE MOTHER - MAHASHAKTI
7 Quotes on KNOWLEDGE
6 Quotes on WORK
6 Quotes on SIN
6 Quotes on TRUTH
5 Quotes on PHYSICIANS - MEDICINE
4 Quotes on MAyA (attachment) & DaYA (compassion)

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.104

Tuesday 1/10/19

The Master Said:

"The path of knowledge leads to Truth,
as does the path that combines knowledge and love.
The path of love, too, leads to this goal.
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge.
All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth.
But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us,
it is easier to follow the path of love."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.104

Wednesday 2/10/19

The Master Said:

"As the All-pervading Spirit He exists in all beings,
even in the ant. But the manifestations of His Power
are different in different beings;
otherwise, how can one person put ten to flight,
while another can't face even one?"

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.104

Thursday 3/10/19

The Master Said:

"There is nothing in mere scholarship.
The object of study is to find means of knowing God
and realizing Him. A holy man had a book.
When asked what it contained, he opened it
and showed that on all the pages were written
the words 'Om RAma', and nothing else."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O5

Friday 4/10/19

The Master Said:

"Why does a vijnAni keep an attitude of love toward God?
The answer is that 'I-consciousness' persists.
It disappears in the state of samAdhi, no doubt,
but it comes back. In the case of ordinary people
the 'I' never disappears. You may cut down the ashwattha tree,
but the next day sprouts shoot up."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O5

Saturday 5/10/19

The Master Said:

"The relationship of master and servant is the proper one.
Since this 'I' must remain, let the rascal be God's servant."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O5

Sunday 6/10/19

The Master Said:

"One should constantly remember death. Nothing will survive death.
We are born into this world to perform certain duties,
like the people who come from the countryside to Calcutta
on business. If a visitor goes to a rich man's garden,
the superintendant says to him, 'This is our garden',
'This is our lake', and so forth. But if the superintendent
is dismissed for some misdeed, he can't even carry away
his mango-wood chest. He sends it secretly by the gatekeeper."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O5

Monday 7/10/19

The Master Said:

"God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says
to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother;
I shall certainly cure your boy.' God laughs to Himself,
'I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save it !'
The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God
is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide
their land with a string, saying to each other, '
This side is mine and that side is yours.'
He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me,
but they say they own this portion or that portion."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O7

Tuesday 8/10/19

The Master Said:

"He who is attributeless also has attributes.
He who is Brahman is also Shakti. When thought of as inactive,
He is called Brahman, and when thought of as Creator, Preserver,
and Destroyer, He is called the Primordial Energy, kAli."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O8

Wednesday 9/10/19

The Master Said:

"Brahman and Shakti are identical, like fire and its power to burn.
When we talk of fire we automatically mean also its power to burn.
Again, the fire's power to burn implies the fire itself.
If you accept the one you must accept the other."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O8

Thursday 10/10/19

The Master Said:

"What is needed is absorption in God - loving Him intensely.
The 'Nectar Lake' is the Lake of Immortality. A man sinking in It
does not die, but becomes immortal. Some people believe
that by thinking of God too much the mind becomes deranged;
but that is not true. God is the Lake of Nectar,
the Ocean of Immortality. He is called the 'Immortal'
in the Vedas. Sinking in It, one does not die,
but verily transcends death."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O8

Friday 11/10/19

The Master Said:

"Man cannot really help the world. God alone does that -
He who has created the sun and the moon, who has put love
for their children in parents' hearts, endowed noble souls
with compassion, and holy men and devotees with divine love.
The man who works for others, without any selfish motive,
really does good to himself."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O8

Saturday 12/10/19

The Master Said:

"There is gold buried in your heart, but you are not yet
aware of it. It is covered with a thin layer of clay.
Once you are aware of it, all these activities of yours
will lessen. After the birth of her child, the daughter-in-law
in the family busies herself with it alone.
Everything she does is only for the child.
Her mother-in-law doesn't let her do any household duties."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.1O9

Sunday 13/10/19

The Master Said:

"Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart.
Then, through His grace, one realizes Him in course of time.
God can be seen. One can talk to Him as I am talking to you. "

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.111

Monday 14/10/19

The Master Said:

"Bhakti is the one essential thing.
To be sure, God exists in all beings.
Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
The water of God's grace cannot collect
on the high mound of egotism. It runs down."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.112

Tuesday 15/10/19

The Master Said:

"You may say that there are many errors and superstitions
in another religion. I should reply: Suppose there are.
Every religion has errors. Everyone thinks that his watch alone
gives the correct time. It is enough to have yearning for God.
It is enough to love Him and feel attracted to Him.
Don't you know that God is the Inner Guide?"

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.113

Wednesday 16/10/19

The Master Said:

"Take a pair of scales, for example.
If a weight is placed on one side,
the lower needle moves away from the upper one.
The lower needle is the mind, and the upper one, God.
The meeting of the two is yoga."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.113

Thursday 17/10/19

The Master Said:

"Unless the mind becomes steady there cannot be yoga.
It is the wind of wordliness that always disturbs the mind,
which may be likened to a candle flame.
If that flame doesn't move at all,
then one is said to have attained yoga."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.113

Friday 18/10/19

The Master Said:

"The mind of the yogi is always fixed on God,
always absorbed in the Self. You can recognize such a man
by merely looking at him. His eyes are wide open,
with an aimless look, like the eyes of a mother bird
hatching her eggs."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.113

Saturday 19/10/19

The Master Said:

"Perform your duties in an unselfish spirit.
Always try to perform your duties without desiring any result.
All, without exception, perform work.
Even to chant the name and glories of God is work,
as is the meditation of the non-dualist on 'I am He'.
Breathing is also an activity. There is no way of renouncing
work altogether. So do your work, but surrender the result to God."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.114

Sunday 20/10/19

The Master Said:

"How long must one do his duty? The blossom drops off
when the fruit appears. One doesn't have to do one's duty
after the attainment of God, nor does one feel like doing it then."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.115

Monday 21/10/19

The Master Said:

"God cannot be seen with these physical eyes.
In the course of spiritual discipline one gets a 'love body',
endowed with 'love eyes', 'love ears', and so on.
One sees God with those 'love eyes'.
One hears the voice of God with those 'love ears'.
One even gets a sexual organ made of love."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.116

Tuesday 22/10/19

The Master Said:

"One need not fear anything if one has received the grace of God.
It is rather easy for a child to stumble
if he holds the father's hand; but there can be no such fear
if the father holds the child's hand."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.116

Wednesday 23/10/19

The Master Said:

"One must propitiate the Divine Mother, the Primal Energy,
in order to obtain God's grace. God Himself is MahAmAyA,
who deludes the world with Her illusion and conjures
up the magic of creation, preservation and destruction."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.116

Thursday 24/10/19

The Master Said:

"The worship of Shakti is extremely difficult. It is no joke.
I passed two years as the handmaid of the Divine Mother.
But my natural attitude has always been that of a child
toward its mother. I regard the breasts of any woman
as those of my own mother."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.117

FRiday 25/10/19

The Master Said:

"After attaining God one forgets His external splendour,
the glories of His creation. One doesn't think of God's glories
after one has seen Him. The devotee, once immersed in God's Bliss,
doesn't calculate any more about outer things.
When I see Narendra, I don't need to ask him:
'what's your name? Where do you live?
Where is the time for such questions?
Once a man asked HanumAn which day of the fortnight it was.
'Brother', said HanumAn, 'I don't know anything of the day
of the week, or the fortnight, or the position of the stars.
I think of RAma alone."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.117

Saturday 26/10/19

The Master Said:

"What tremendous faith Krishnakishore had !
Once, while at VrindAvan, he felt thirsty and went to a well.
Near it he saw a man standing. On being asked to draw
a little water for him, the man said:
'I belong to a low caste, sir. You are a BrAhmin.
How can I draw water for you?' Krishnakishore said:
'Take the name of Shiva. By repeating His holy name
you will make yourself pure.' The low-cast man did
as he was told, and Krishnakishore, orthodox BrAhmin
that he was, drank that water. What tremendous faith !"

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.123

Sunday 27/10/19

The Master Said:

"Although Tantra prescribes spiritual discipline
in the company of woman, that is not desirable.
It is a very difficult path and often causes
the aspirant's downfall. There are three such kinds of discipline.
One may regard woman as one's mistress or look on oneself
as her handmaid or as her child. I look on woman as my mother.
To look on oneself as her handmaid is also good;
but it is extremely difficult to practice spiritual discipline
looking on woman as one's mistress.
To regard oneself as Her child is a very pure attitude."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.125

Monday 28/10/19

The Master Said:

"What can one achieve by mere lecturing and scholarship
without discrimination and dispassion?
God alone is real, all else is unreal.
God alone is substance, and all else is non-entity.
That is discrimination."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.125

Tuesday 29/10/19

The Master Said:

"First of all set up the shrine of God in your heart,
and then deliver lectures as much as you like.
How will the mere repetition of 'Brahma' profit you
if you are not imbued with discrimination and dispassion?
It is the empty sound of a conch-shell."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. P.349

Wednesday 30/10/19

The Master said:

"Flatterers think that the rich man will loosen
his purse-strings for them. But it is very difficult
to get anything from him.
Once a jackal saw a bullock and would not give up his company.
The bullock roamed about and the jackal followed him.
The jackal thought: 'There hang the bullock's testicles.
Some time or other they will drop to the ground and I shall eat them.'
When the bullock slept on the ground, the jackal lay down too,
and when the bullock moved about, the jackal followed him.
Many days passed in this way, but the bullock's testicles still clung to his body.
The jackal went away disappointed.
That also happens to flatterers."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.103

Thursday 31/10/19

The Master Said:

"In the kaliyuga, man, being totally dependent on food for life,
cannot altogether shake off the idea that he is the body.
In this state of mind it is not proper for him to say:
'I am He'. When a man does all sorts of worldly things,
he should not say, 'I am Brahman'.
Those who cannot give up attachment to worldly things,
and who find no means to shake off the feeling of 'I',
should rather cherish the idea, 'I am God's servant;
I am His devotee.' One can also realize God by following
the path of devotion."

om tat sat

~~~~~~ om shanthi om~~~~~~

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